This document discusses key concepts related to population studies including characteristics of pre-industrial cities, fertility rates among different ethnic groups in the US, immigration and emigration, Thomas Malthus' theory of population, push and pull factors that influence migration, the four stages of the Demographic Transition Theory, examples of panics including the War of the Worlds radio broadcast and the Barseback incident, and characteristics of the Nazi social movement in Germany. It provides an overview of population trends and influential theories related to birth rates, death rates, and population growth over time.

1. Lecture:
1. Characteristics of Pre-Industrial cities: agriculture and
2. Fertility: actual number of births
3. Fecundity: the biological potential of birth
-whites: 1.8
-Blacks: 2.0
-Hispanics: 2.4
4. Death Rate of US is 7.4 per 1000
5. Immigrants: people entering a country
6. Emmigrants: people leaving a country
7. Population during christ: 250 mil
8. population in 1850: 1.4 bil
9. Population present day: 7 bil
10. Mathus Theory: Population increases at a geometric rate and Subsistence
increases at a arithmetic rate
-Postive checks=death
-Preventative checks=births
11. Theory of migration: Push and Pull factors (Jobs, Income, Standard of living
12. Phases of Demographic Transition Theory
a. Stage 1: high births and high deaths
b. Stage 2: high births and lower deaths
c. Stage 3: lower births and lower deaths
13. Tulipomania: when people were obsessed with Tulips, sign of wealth
14. War of Worlds and Barseback incidents are both examples of Panics
15. Nazi social movement:
-People had need for a Natural Constituency
-A vigorous internal society